Dubai airport turns busiest, sees 27.9 mn passengers

Dubai airport turns busiest, sees 27.9 mn passengers

Dubai International Airport recorded the busiest first half in its history with 27.9 million passengers passing through its three terminals between January and June this year, the traffic report issued by Dubai Airports said.

Dubai airport turns busiest, sees 27.9 mn passengers

"We are on track to meet the annual projected traffic of 56.5 million passengers, which will bring us very close to Dubai International's operational capacity of 60 million passengers per annum," Paul Griffiths, CEO of Dubai Airports said.

Dubai airport turns busiest, sees 27.9 mn passengers

"The addition of Concourse 3 during the first quarter of 2013 is well timed to boost our capacity to 75 million while upping the game on our already high levels of customer service," said Paul Griffiths.